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January  1, 1983  is  considered  the  official  birthday  of  the  Internet.  Before  this,  the
                  computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new

                  communications protocol was established named Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
                  Protocol  (TCP/IP). The  TCP/IP  allows  computers  connected to different  networks to
                  communicate with each other.



           Prime (Ver. 2.2)-VI  The World Wide Web (www) is a large information system where you can surf and get
                    World Wide Web




                  information. It consists of several public and private websites which may be interlinked
                  and accessible over the Internet worldwide. www is also known as Web. Many people
                  believe that the World Wide Web and the Internet are the same thing, but this is not

                  correct. In fact, these are two different things. The Web is a service (a system for
                  accessing information) that is supported by the Internet, a system of interconnected
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                  networks.

                  Information on the Web is stored in the form of Web pages. A Web page is a hypertext (
                  a text that carries additional information in it) document. A collection of related web pages
                  is called a website. Websites are housed on Web servers. A Web server is an Internet

                  host computer that often stores thousands of individual Web pages. Copying a Web page
                  onto a server is called publishing the Web page. This process is also called as posting or
                  uploading.




                          Fun        The World Wide Web (www) or Web was created in 1989 at the European
                          Fact!      Particle  Physics  Laboratory in  Geneva, Switzerland,  as  a method for

                                     incorporating  footnotes,  figures,  and  cross-references  into  online

                                     documents.



                   How the Web Works?


                  Web documents can be linked together because they are created in a format known as

                  hypertext. Hypertext  system provides an easy way to manage large collections of data,
                  which  can  include  text  files,  pictures,  sounds,  movies  and  more.  To  support  hypertext

                  documents,  the  Web  uses  a  special  protocol,  called  the  Hypertext  Transfer  Protocol
                  (HTTP). The language that is used to create webpages allows a document’s author to embed
                  hypertext links, also called hyperlinks or just links in the document. HTTP and hypertext

                  links are the foundations of the World Wide Web.
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